RE: Decline of religion
July 21, 2022 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2022 at 1:34 am by Fake Messiah.)
Christianity Declines While More Report Having ‘No Religion’ in Australia
The number of Australians moving away from religion is rising fast, with new statistics revealing that the proportion of Australians identifying as having ‘no religion’ has risen from merely 0.7 percent in 1961 to almost 40 percent 2021.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s census from five years earlier showed that the proportion of irreligious was at 30.1 percent and 22.3 percent ten years earlier.
“The decline in the proportion of Australians who say they are Christian—whether Catholic, Anglican or another denomination—coupled with a similarly sized increase in the number who tell us they have no religion, could reflect a growing level of genuine atheism or agnosticism,” he said.
If the current downward trend continues, the number of irreligious people will exceed the number of Christians by 2026, according to professor and head of law at the Sheridan Institute of Higher Education Augusto Zimmermann.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/christiani...67940.html
Interestingly, this other artile claims that nonreligion is even higher in Australia:
The latest census results are out and the number of Australians who selected "no religion" has risen again to 38.9%, up from 30.1% in 2016.
This makes them the second-largest "religious group" after Christians, who make up 43.9% of the population, down from 52.1% in 2016.
--- the effect ---
In the five years between the 2016 census and 2021 census, Australia saw a monumental shift in what might broadly be considered moral laws.
In December 2017 the definition of marriage was officially changed to being the union of two persons voluntarily entered into for life, regardless of gender.
But marriage equality is just the tip of the iceberg.
Euthanasia and abortion laws have also been reformed in the five years between the censuses.
Victoria, WA and Tasmania all passed laws to legalise euthanasia. Queensland and New South Wales have also passed similar laws since the 2021 census.
Abortion has been decriminalised in all states, with South Australia, NSW, the Northern Territory and Queensland all making reforms to their laws.
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-religion-a...upand.html
The number of Australians moving away from religion is rising fast, with new statistics revealing that the proportion of Australians identifying as having ‘no religion’ has risen from merely 0.7 percent in 1961 to almost 40 percent 2021.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s census from five years earlier showed that the proportion of irreligious was at 30.1 percent and 22.3 percent ten years earlier.
“The decline in the proportion of Australians who say they are Christian—whether Catholic, Anglican or another denomination—coupled with a similarly sized increase in the number who tell us they have no religion, could reflect a growing level of genuine atheism or agnosticism,” he said.
If the current downward trend continues, the number of irreligious people will exceed the number of Christians by 2026, according to professor and head of law at the Sheridan Institute of Higher Education Augusto Zimmermann.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/christiani...67940.html
Interestingly, this other artile claims that nonreligion is even higher in Australia:
The latest census results are out and the number of Australians who selected "no religion" has risen again to 38.9%, up from 30.1% in 2016.
This makes them the second-largest "religious group" after Christians, who make up 43.9% of the population, down from 52.1% in 2016.
--- the effect ---
In the five years between the 2016 census and 2021 census, Australia saw a monumental shift in what might broadly be considered moral laws.
In December 2017 the definition of marriage was officially changed to being the union of two persons voluntarily entered into for life, regardless of gender.
But marriage equality is just the tip of the iceberg.
Euthanasia and abortion laws have also been reformed in the five years between the censuses.
Victoria, WA and Tasmania all passed laws to legalise euthanasia. Queensland and New South Wales have also passed similar laws since the 2021 census.
Abortion has been decriminalised in all states, with South Australia, NSW, the Northern Territory and Queensland all making reforms to their laws.
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-religion-a...upand.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
